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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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Inspection — The Pope declared war on the Vatican's luxury cars. First,
he attacked wastefulness, underscoring that "it bothers me when I see a priest
or a sister with a brand new car." Then, a few days later, he put into practice
what he had stated during a meeting with seminarians: on Wednesday he made an
inspection of the Vatican parking lot. It isn't the first time — already
in the past days Pope Francis, on his way to lunch with a cardinal friend,
visited the place where some cardinals usually park their cars.

Father Z, who provided the above translation, asks the Holy Father to please
see the forest for the trees.

This whole topic is a phenomenal waste of time. I post on it because, mark my
words, people who can barely scrape three brain cells together, are going to
latch onto the vague moralism of "think of the poor" when looking at the local
priest's car. There are some people who think that if the priest isn't licking
up water from puddles on the sidewalk and rubbing gravel through his hair, he
is a bad priest who doesn't care enough about las ovejas pobres.

Indeed. The very idea of Clunkers for Clerics seems absurd to me too. A priest
needs reliable transportation. He should be tending to his flock, not
constantly prowling around for low-budget car repairs. A fellow who could get
called out at any hour of the day or night needs to know his car will start,
and that it'll get him wherever he's going and safely back home again.

An automotive hairshirt does not meet that requirement.

And not for nothing, but Father Z also
notes (a) the PopeMobile ain't cheap, and (b) a budget-conscious
alternative which popes have used for centuries
already exists.

If not that, I'd say "take the bus," but Papa Bergoglio just might believe I
was being serious.